I told him we thought the criminal was an angry seaman we'd got rid of a few days ago, but Boom Boom said there was more to it than that. I waited on the bridge until five on Tuesday, hoping to talk to him. Then we got news that he'd died.’
Did anyone here see him fall?' I asked.
Captain Bemis shook his head. ‘I'm sorry, but we didn't even realize there had been an accident; none of our men was on deck when the ambulance came.'
I felt disappointed. It seemed so - so unfair that Boom Boom had slid out of life without one person to see him do it. I tried to concentrate on Captain Bemis and the accident to his ship, but it didn't seem important to me. I felt stupid, rushing around the wharf, playing detective, just to avoid admitting that my cousin was dead.